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A cousin of fellow Gulfport native and two time "Mr. Basketball"
for the state of Mississippi Chris Jackson a.k.a. Mahmoud
Abdul-Rauf, Henderson moved to Jackson, MS, where he was
rumored to have scored 85 points in a thirty-two minute Junior High
game and to have a 45" (1.14 m) vertical leap. He
became a high school phenom and helped establish Murrah High
School as a national powerhouse in basketball.

Despite dislocating his shoulder, Henderson was the nation's top
rated shooting
guard in 1993. Then, despite former San Antonio
Spurs head coach Jerry Tarkanian making the then unheard
of declaration of drafting a high school player (Henderson would be
his first pick if he'd enter the draft), he joined the nation's top
point guard, Randy
Livingston, at LSU. However, college basketball's most
highly touted backcourt duo never lived up to expectations due to
injuries to Livingston.

Ronnie Henderson did go on to lead the SEC in scoring two
straight years (23.3 points per game as a sophomore, 21.8 ppg as a
junior) despite suffering knee injuries of his own. He was a 1st
team All SEC selection in 1995 and 1996.

Henderson chose to leave school after his junior year where he
slipped far below most people's expectations to the 55th overall
pick of the 1996 NBA draft. Selected by the Washington Bullets, he never played a
game.